Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 66 80
Rank change year-on-year -25 +14 -24
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 2,008 1,917 2,554
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.96% 3.89% 2.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.66% 4.33% 3.61%
Number of salaries quoted 1,431 956 1,814
10th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £58,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.54% -13.33%
75th Percentile £93,634 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £115,000 £108,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% -6.02%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 75,424 44,229 70,800
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.68% 89.64% 81.30%
Number of salaries quoted 51,991 25,065 47,390
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 30 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 30 July 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -24 1,764 £75,000 +3.45% 793
UK excluding London -41 1,089 £65,000 -7.14% 425
Work from Home -20 892 £67,500 -3.57% 396
London -16 783 £85,000 +3.03% 465
North of England -38 377 £70,000 - 131
South East +10 296 £65,000 -7.14% 127
North West -47 199 £75,000 +7.14% 76
South West -44 126 £57,500 -8.00% 53
Midlands -66 101 £66,250 -1.85% 56
North East +24 93 £65,000 +18.18% 23
Yorkshire -7 85 £60,000 -16.66% 32
West Midlands -38 74 £78,750 +12.50% 37
Northern Ireland -19 57 £66,250 +32.50% 14
Wales -20 57 £70,000 +34.62% 12
East of England -35 45 £60,100 -3.84% 16
Scotland -63 32 £60,000 -23.87% 22
East Midlands -54 26 £64,000 +6.67% 19
Isle of Man - 3 £35,000 -

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 37 (1.84%) Confluence
2 25 (1.25%) Apache Spark
3 16 (0.80%) CMS
4 15 (0.75%) Apache
5 14 (0.70%) IIS
6 11 (0.55%) Camunda
7 9 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 8 (0.40%) JBoss
8 8 (0.40%) WordPress
9 7 (0.35%) nginx
9 7 (0.35%) OpenStack
10 6 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
11 5 (0.25%) Drupal
11 5 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 4 (0.20%) GeoServer
12 4 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
12 4 (0.20%) Umbraco
13 3 (0.15%) EPiServer
13 3 (0.15%) Kentico
13 3 (0.15%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 11 (0.55%) MS Visio
2 9 (0.45%) Chatbot
3 6 (0.30%) PlantUML
4 3 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.100%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
1 8 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
2 6 (0.30%) Oracle Retail
3 4 (0.20%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.100%) Shopify
6 1 (0.050%) Eikon
6 1 (0.050%) RMDS
6 1 (0.050%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,037 (51.64%) AWS
2 870 (43.33%) Azure
3 328 (16.33%) GCP
4 265 (13.20%) Serverless
5 243 (12.10%) GitHub
6 187 (9.31%) SaaS
7 173 (8.62%) Azure DevOps
8 133 (6.62%) AWS Lambda
9 115 (5.73%) Amazon S3
10 110 (5.48%) Amazon EKS
11 102 (5.08%) GitHub Copilot
12 101 (5.03%) AWS CloudFormation
13 92 (4.58%) Azure Service Bus
14 80 (3.98%) Amazon ECS
15 67 (3.34%) Amazon EC2
15 67 (3.34%) GitHub Actions
16 65 (3.24%) Amazon SQS
17 64 (3.19%) Azure AKS
18 52 (2.59%) PaaS
19 49 (2.44%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 55 (2.74%) Broadband
2 25 (1.25%) Network Security
3 15 (0.75%) MQTT
4 13 (0.65%) DMARC
5 11 (0.55%) DNS
6 8 (0.40%) Firewall
6 8 (0.40%) Internet
6 8 (0.40%) VPN
7 7 (0.35%) AMQP
7 7 (0.35%) Hyperconnected
8 6 (0.30%) Cisco ASA
8 6 (0.30%) DHCP
8 6 (0.30%) HTTP
8 6 (0.30%) RFID
8 6 (0.30%) TCP/IP
9 4 (0.20%) LTE
10 3 (0.15%) Modbus
11 2 (0.100%) NAS
11 2 (0.100%) SAN
12 1 (0.050%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 306 (15.24%) MongoDB
2 226 (11.25%) PostgreSQL
3 201 (10.01%) NoSQL
4 166 (8.27%) Azure SQL Database
5 160 (7.97%) Elasticsearch
6 124 (6.18%) MySQL
7 111 (5.53%) SQL Server
8 93 (4.63%) Relational Database
9 65 (3.24%) Redis
10 51 (2.54%) DynamoDB
11 49 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
12 31 (1.54%) Big Data
13 21 (1.05%) RDBMS
14 17 (0.85%) BigQuery
15 13 (0.65%) Pinecone
16 12 (0.60%) Db2
16 12 (0.60%) DTS
17 11 (0.55%) Data Lake
18 10 (0.50%) Geospatial Data
19 8 (0.40%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 256 (12.75%) Git
2 189 (9.41%) GitLab
3 162 (8.07%) Jenkins
4 61 (3.04%) JIRA
5 59 (2.94%) JUnit
6 57 (2.84%) TeamCity
7 45 (2.24%) Cucumber
8 36 (1.79%) Mockito
9 34 (1.69%) Cypress.io
10 32 (1.59%) Claude Code
11 28 (1.39%) Maven
12 24 (1.20%) Selenium
13 22 (1.10%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 20 (1.00%) CircleCI
15 18 (0.90%) SonarQube
16 14 (0.70%) Postman
17 13 (0.65%) JMeter
17 13 (0.65%) Spock
18 12 (0.60%) REST Assured
18 12 (0.60%) Vite
General
1 490 (24.40%) Finance
2 379 (18.87%) Social Skills
3 208 (10.36%) Public Sector
4 174 (8.67%) Banking
5 130 (6.47%) Law
6 129 (6.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 121 (6.03%) Analytical Skills
8 116 (5.78%) Retail
9 75 (3.74%) Legal
10 59 (2.94%) Financial Institution
11 48 (2.39%) Marketing
12 44 (2.19%) Back Office
13 30 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
14 28 (1.39%) Legal Technology
15 27 (1.34%) Aerospace
16 23 (1.15%) Advertising
17 22 (1.10%) Games
18 19 (0.95%) Front Office
18 19 (0.95%) Telecoms
19 14 (0.70%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 750 (37.35%) Developer
2 481 (23.95%) Senior
3 362 (18.03%) Software Engineer
4 314 (15.64%) Lead
5 274 (13.65%) Architect
6 208 (10.36%) .NET Developer
7 176 (8.76%) Senior Developer
8 159 (7.92%) Full-Stack Developer
9 150 (7.47%) Java Developer
10 136 (6.77%) Java Engineer
11 121 (6.03%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 114 (5.68%) Senior Software Engineer
13 100 (4.98%) Solutions Architect
14 99 (4.93%) Principal Engineer
15 82 (4.08%) Software Developer
16 73 (3.64%) DevOps Engineer
17 71 (3.54%) Lead Developer
18 66 (3.29%) Lead Software Engineer
19 56 (2.79%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
20 54 (2.69%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 545 (27.14%) .NET
2 433 (21.56%) React
3 415 (20.67%) Node.js
4 335 (16.68%) Spring
5 308 (15.34%) Spring Boot
6 291 (14.49%) RESTful
7 272 (13.55%) REST
8 249 (12.40%) Kafka
9 239 (11.90%) ASP.NET
10 218 (10.86%) .NET Core
11 214 (10.66%) AngularJS
12 210 (10.46%) Vue
13 195 (9.71%) ASP.NET Core
14 115 (5.73%) Blazor
15 107 (5.33%) ASP.NET Web API
16 100 (4.98%) .NET Framework
17 94 (4.68%) HTML
18 89 (4.43%) CSS
19 78 (3.88%) RabbitMQ
20 72 (3.59%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 608 (30.28%) Cloud Native
2 350 (17.43%) Distributed Systems
3 138 (6.87%) Product Ownership
4 104 (5.18%) Legacy Systems
5 94 (4.68%) Enterprise Software
6 64 (3.19%) Onboarding
7 56 (2.79%) Greenfield Project
8 42 (2.09%) Public Cloud
9 41 (2.04%) AI Agents
10 39 (1.94%) Video\Live Streaming
11 36 (1.79%) Over-the-Top Content
12 35 (1.74%) Virtual Team
13 32 (1.59%) e-Learning
14 31 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
15 26 (1.29%) Legacy Applications
16 25 (1.25%) Algorithms
16 25 (1.25%) Data Structures
17 24 (1.20%) Distributed Architecture
18 19 (0.95%) Management Information System
19 18 (0.90%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 129 (6.42%) Linux
2 47 (2.34%) Windows
3 21 (1.05%) CentOS
3 21 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 21 (1.05%) Unix
4 7 (0.35%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.25%) AIX
6 4 (0.20%) Debian
6 4 (0.20%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.15%) Android
7 3 (0.15%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.050%) Kali Linux
8 1 (0.050%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,047 (52.14%) CI/CD
2 957 (47.66%) Agile
3 714 (35.56%) Software Engineering
4 711 (35.41%) DevOps
5 572 (28.49%) Full-Stack Development
6 483 (24.05%) Mentoring
7 429 (21.36%) Containerisation
8 427 (21.26%) Event-Driven
9 421 (20.97%) AI
10 405 (20.17%) Test Automation
11 396 (19.72%) Continuous Improvement
12 383 (19.07%) Infrastructure as Code
13 361 (17.98%) Problem-Solving
14 282 (14.04%) Scrum
15 270 (13.45%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 268 (13.35%) Technical Leadership
17 247 (12.30%) TDD
18 222 (11.06%) Clean Code
19 214 (10.66%) Architectural Patterns
20 213 (10.61%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 663 (33.02%) Java
2 562 (27.99%) C#
3 495 (24.65%) SQL
4 477 (23.75%) Python
5 451 (22.46%) JavaScript
6 368 (18.33%) TypeScript
7 112 (5.58%) Go
8 50 (2.49%) Ruby
9 45 (2.24%) C++
9 45 (2.24%) Scala
10 42 (2.09%) PHP
11 39 (1.94%) Bash
12 26 (1.29%) Bicep
13 25 (1.25%) PowerShell
14 24 (1.20%) Rust
15 21 (1.05%) C
16 18 (0.90%) Kotlin
17 17 (0.85%) PL/SQL
18 12 (0.60%) Groovy
19 11 (0.55%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 273 (13.60%) Security Cleared
2 184 (9.16%) SC Cleared
3 182 (9.06%) Degree
4 84 (4.18%) Computer Science Degree
5 73 (3.64%) DV Cleared
6 69 (3.44%) AWS Certification
7 42 (2.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 24 (1.20%) CISSP
9 20 (1.00%) Azure Certification
10 18 (0.90%) Master's Degree
11 13 (0.65%) TOGAF Certification
12 12 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
13 10 (0.50%) CISM
13 10 (0.50%) DBS Check
13 10 (0.50%) PhD
14 9 (0.45%) MBA
15 5 (0.25%) AWS Certified Developer
15 5 (0.25%) Microsoft Certification
16 4 (0.20%) Cisco Certification
16 4 (0.20%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 203 (10.11%) QA
2 78 (3.88%) Accessibility
3 39 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 38 (1.89%) GDPR
5 32 (1.59%) WCAG
6 21 (1.05%) SOC 2
7 20 (1.00%) PCI DSS
8 19 (0.95%) NIST
9 16 (0.80%) NCSC
10 15 (0.75%) GRC
11 10 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
12 8 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
12 8 (0.40%) Data Quality
12 8 (0.40%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 7 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 6 (0.30%) Government Security Classifications
15 5 (0.25%) PSD2
15 5 (0.25%) SEPA
16 4 (0.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 3 (0.15%) IFRS
System Software
1 577 (28.74%) Docker
2 29 (1.44%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.25%) NDS
5 4 (0.20%) Firmware
5 4 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.15%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.100%) KVM
8 1 (0.050%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 613 (30.53%) Kubernetes
2 355 (17.68%) Terraform
3 112 (5.58%) Ansible
4 94 (4.68%) Grafana
5 58 (2.89%) Prometheus
6 25 (1.25%) Argo
7 18 (0.90%) Puppet
8 17 (0.85%) Kibana
9 16 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
10 13 (0.65%) Cilium
11 8 (0.40%) HP Fortify
12 6 (0.30%) Progress Chef
13 4 (0.20%) Packer
13 4 (0.20%) Podman
14 2 (0.100%) Kubeflow
14 2 (0.100%) MIIS
14 2 (0.100%) Opsgenie
14 2 (0.100%) Rancher
15 1 (0.050%) Fluentd
15 1 (0.050%) Nagios
Vendors
1 321 (15.99%) Microsoft
2 90 (4.48%) Google
3 65 (3.24%) Oracle
4 39 (1.94%) OpenAI
5 36 (1.79%) Typelevel
6 32 (1.59%) Splunk
7 25 (1.25%) Dynatrace
8 23 (1.15%) IBM
9 21 (1.05%) AppDynamics
10 20 (1.00%) Databricks
11 16 (0.80%) Okta
12 15 (0.75%) ForgeRock
13 13 (0.65%) Adobe
13 13 (0.65%) OneLogin
13 13 (0.65%) SendGrid
14 12 (0.60%) Salesforce
14 12 (0.60%) SAP
15 11 (0.55%) Red Hat
16 10 (0.50%) ServiceNow
17 8 (0.40%) OpenText